METRO NEWS BRIEFS: NEW JERSEY

Published: October 14, 1998

NEWARK—
The killing of a woman whose body was found in Newark on Sunday will be investigated by a task force convened to look into 14 other unsolved murders in Essex County, the county prosecutor's office said.

The victim was identified as Pamela Henderson, 37, of Newark, who was beaten to death, said Ray Weiss, a spokesman for the prosecutor's office. He said her body was found in a parking lot adjacent to an abandoned building near the Elizabeth border.